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JAUME BERTRANPETIT, PhD Group Leader Evolutionary Biology and Complex Systems Program Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Spain Unveiling the information in the variation in the human genome: from ancestry to adaptation http://biologiaevolutiva.org/jbertranpetit/ > Click here for biography < |
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DEANNA CHURCH, PhD Senior Director of Applications 10x Genomics California, USA Advancing genomics drop by drop > Click here for biography < |
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JAN KORBEL, PhD Genome Biology Unit European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany From genomic variation to molecular mechanism www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/korbel/ |
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NICOLE SORANZO, PhD Group Leader Human Genetics Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) Professor of Human Genetics University of Cambridge United Kingdom Genetic and epigenetic variation in population-based cohorts informs cardiometabolic and immune disease risk > Click here for biography < |
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| JAUME BERTRANPETIT, PhD Professor of Biology at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). Group leader in the Evolutionary Biology and Complex Systems Program in this University. Promoter of the Institute for Evolutionary Biology, IBE (UPF-CSIC). His research field is in different aspects on the study of the human genome variation and diversity: human population genetics, molecular evolution, comparative genomics and the interaction between human evolutionary biology and other fields, including medicine, genetic of complex diseases, statistical genetics and others. Recent publications are mainly on the footprint of natural selection in the human genome and the emerging field of Evolutionary Systems Biology, with the relationship of molecular networks and adaptation in genome-wide perspective. He has published over 300 research papers, most of them since his major dedication to genome studies (since 1992). Director of ICREA (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats) till 2015. |
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| DEANNA CHURCH, PhD Dr. Deanna Church is currently the Senior Director of Applications at 10x Genomics. In this role, she leads a diverse group of scientists who are developing approaches for improved genome analysis, using Linked-Reads, as well as expanding the application space of single cell transcriptome profiling. Previously, she was Senior Director of Genomics and Content at Personalis, where she helped advance the field of genomics based clinical diagnostics. Prior to that, she was a staff scientist at NCBI, where she oversaw several projects concerning managing and displaying genomic data, including dbVar, a database of structural variation, the NCBI Variation Viewer, the NCBI Map Viewer, the Clone database and the NCBI Remap service. Dr. Church was also a founding member of the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC), an international group charged with improving the reference assembly for humans and other model organisms and was an author on the two seminal manuscripts describing the human and mouse genome sequences. She has experience in molecular biology, genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in Liberal Arts in 1990 and received her doctoral degree in the Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine with Dr. John Wasmuth. She did post-doctoral training in developmental biology with Dr. Janet Rossant at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. |
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| NICOLE SORANZO, PhD Prof. Soranzo is a human geneticist working in the field of human complex trait genetics. Her research focuses on the application of large-scale genomic analysis to unravel the spectrum of human genetic variation associated with cardiometabolic and immune diseases, and its interaction with non-genetic and environmental cues. Prof. Soranzo graduated in biological sciences at the University of Milano, Italy, with a dissertation on population and evolutionary genetics. She later obtained a PhD in genetics from the University of Dundee, and undertook post-doctoral training in human population and statistical genetics at University College London, conducting applied and methodological work in evolutionary genetics and association studies. In 2005 Prof. Soranzo joined the Pharmacogenomics Department at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development (Raritan, USA). In 2007 she joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and since 2009 she has led her own team. In 2015 she was additionally appointed as Professor of Human Genetics at the School of Clinical Medicine of the University of Cambridge. Furthermore, Prof. Soranzo is a member of the Cambridge University Platelet Biology and Cardiovascular groups, the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics and the EU BLUEPRINT and EpiGeneSys projects. She serves in several steering committees and scientific advisory boards, and is on the editorial board for the European Journal of Human Genetics, Genome Medicine, Trends in Genetics, and Molecular Biology and Evolution. |
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